Hybrid and remote work is here to stay. Companies will continue to need secure video communications and to exchange data remotely with their employees, partners, and customers, in real-time. A custom WebRTC application can help close geographic barriers, foster collaboration, and centralize processes.
Janus is a great, lightweight piece of software that allows you to scale video conferencing quickly. While Janus documentation isn’t very easy to decipher to a newer user of the platform, it’s still a powerful tool that can be leveraged to overcharge your WebRTC infrastructure. Our WebRTC Engineer Jacob Greenway sheds light on some of the more difficult aspects of Janus security and shares best practices for hardening a Janus gateway to security attacks.
8×8’s new Jitsi as a Service (JaaS) provides a complete video conferencing tool right out of the box that can be easily integrated into Wordpress. Perfect for smaller businesses with simple use cases and budgets that cannot support a fully custom WebRTC application.
Whether to have recording capability in your WebRTC video or audio application is incredibly important to decide on BEFORE you build. You must also consider how much recording, recording layouts, where and how long you keep it, and how secure it needs to be. Let’s look at how recording affects your app’s architectural choices, as well as the question of recording as composite or individual streams.
